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Strong's #804: 'Ashshuwr (pronounced ash-shoor')

or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}; apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire:--Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּׁ / ּּׁ

'ashshûr

Asshur or Assyria = "a step"

1) the second son of Shem, eponymous ancestor of the Assyrians (noun proper masculine)

2) the people of Assyria (noun proper masculine)

3) the nation, Assyria (noun proper locative)

4) the land, Assyria or Asshur (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: apparently from H833 (in the sense of successful)



Usage:

This word is used 152 times:

Isaiah 36:1: "of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all"
Isaiah 36:2: "And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem"
Isaiah 36:4: "the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein"
Isaiah 36:8: "to my master the king of Assyria, thee two thousand horses, if"
Isaiah 36:13: "of the great king, the king of Assyria."
Isaiah 36:15: "city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria."
Isaiah 36:16: "thus saith of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out"
Isaiah 36:18: "his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?"
Isaiah 37:4: "of Rab-shakeh, the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living"
Isaiah 37:6: "that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed"
Isaiah 37:8: "and found the king of Assyria warring Libnah: for"
Isaiah 37:10: "be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
Isaiah 37:11: "hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done lands by destroying them utterly;"
Isaiah 37:18: "Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all"
Isaiah 37:21: "me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:"
Isaiah 37:33: "the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, come into this"
Isaiah 37:36: "went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and five thousand:"
Isaiah 37:37: "So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt"
Isaiah 38:6: "city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend"
Isaiah 52:4: "into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause."
Jeremiah 2:18: "of Sihor? hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?"
Jeremiah 2:36: "of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. of Assyria."
Jeremiah 50:17: "have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar"
Jeremiah 50:18: "and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria."
Lamentations 5:6: "We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."
Ezekiel 16:28: "Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot"
Ezekiel 23:5: "on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,"
Ezekiel 23:7: "them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, on whom she doted: with all"
Ezekiel 23:9: "her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, of the Assyrians, upon she doted."
Ezekiel 23:12: "She doted upon the Assyrians the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed"
Ezekiel 23:23: "Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all"
Ezekiel 27:6: "of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made of ivory,"
Ezekiel 27:23: "and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad,"
Ezekiel 31:3: "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing"
Ezekiel 32:22: " Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all"
Hosea 5:13: "Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb:"
Hosea 7:11: "they call they go to Assyria."
Hosea 8:9: "For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim"
Hosea 9:3: "to Egypt, unclean things in Assyria."
Hosea 10:6: "It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim"
Hosea 11:5: "into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, they refused to return."
Hosea 11:11: "out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place"
Hosea 12:1: "and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt."
Hosea 14:3: " Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses:"
Micah 5:5: "man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: he shall tread"
Micah 5:6: "And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod"
Micah 5:6: "thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when"
Micah 7:12: "also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified and from the fortress"
Nahum 3:18: "Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people"
Zephaniah 2:13: "the north, and destroy Assyria; Nineveh a desolation,"









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